Re: status of image support in info doc

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     Now that we have image support in Emacs 21, are there any plans, or
>     is anyone working on inline image support (PNG, eg) for info output
>     of texinfo?
>
> No one has suggested it before, so no.

Ah, too bad.

> I guess we could insert a reference into the info file and have the
> images in separate files.

Yes, that would be good.  With LilyPond, documentation comes in info
and html, as will often be the case for documentation in texinfo
source.  It would be a real waste of disk space to duplicate all those
PNGs.

Currently, we have a script that inserts the pictures, for tex and for
html, like so:

    @tex
    address@hidden
    \input lilyponddefs
    \def\EndLilyPondOutput{}
    \input lily-163291676.tex
    address@hidden
    @end tex
    @html
    <p>
    <a href="lily-163291676.png">
    <img border=0 src="lily-163291676.png" alt="[picture of music]">
    </a>
    @end html

It would be nice if a new type of @image command would create both
sane html and info output.

> Did you have other ideas in mind?

No.  Any idea how tricky this would be to implement, do you know
something about Emacs 21's image display?

Jan.

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